Um, don't think so! Again, this is an isolated example. There may be many articles like this, but overall they will be a tiny percentage of the total articles in Wikipedia. NPOV has by no means been achieved throughout Wikipedia, as said before it's a goal & many articles are neutral & reliable.
On 09/04/2009 14:33, Bill Carter wrote: > Tris: You're not insane, are you? > > Alan Cabal's name was just struck once again from the New York Press article. > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Tris Thomas<[email protected]> > To: English Wikipedia<[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2009 9:28:31 AM > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] NPOV is a big lie > > Bill-I'm sure there are some examples as you have shown of articles gone > wrong, but I'm sure that these are in the minority. As far as I've > found it, Wikipedia has been a generally neutral& reliable source, with > the odd exceptions. > > Tris > > On 09/04/2009 14:24, Bill Carter wrote: > >> FT2: You must be a part of Wikipedia's propaganda ministry. I offer you >> facts about one striking instance in which journalist Alan Cabal has been >> maligned over and over again. Who knows how many other >> Wikipedia articles are being treated in such a way, and only if people >> come forward will we get a good idea. >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: FT2<[email protected]> >> To: English Wikipedia<[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2009 7:16:31 AM >> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] NPOV is a big lie >> >> This is (when stripped down) basically a "straw man" post. It uses quotes by >> others saying "A"as a rhetoric device in a question where the issue isn't >> "A" at all, and in effect, conflates the two to try and make its point. It >> then presents its point as made when in fact it hasn't made it at all, nor >> even contains any attempt to do so. It's either sloppy logic or a rhetoric >> device. Either way it has no place in honest communication, except as a >> mistake to be retracted when spotted. >> >> <snip> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
